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...sank the Japanese Fleet? I, said the Russian navy. With my Amur River Flotilla I sank the Japanese Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Big Week | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unless He's Six-Feet-Four . . . | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Into the breach stepped Douglas Kennedy, who sports the colors of the New York Herald Tribune flotilla...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...flotilla would look something like this, in order of State's priorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: ERP, the Ark | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Councilors hauled in reports. Conferees fashioned policies. Committees nailed together legislation to submit to Congress. Other little arks were knocked together: ERP would actually be a flotilla by the time it was launched. Within two or three weeks after Congress convened on Nov. 17, the Administration hoped to have its whole program for aid to Europe and the world ready to go down the ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: ERP, the Ark | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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